Leonidovo (Sakhalin Oblast)

Located on the banks of the Leonidovka River.

In the vicinity of the village there are numerous garden plots of residents of Poronaysk and some other villages of the district.

Also in the village is a former military town, office space is mostly destroyed.

The mining village, built by the Japanese. It belonged to the Japanese governorate of Karafuto and was called Kamisikuka ( 上 敷 香 ) . In 1943, a military airfield was built near the village.

During the USSR military operations against Japan, fierce clashes took place here - the battalion of the 179th Infantry Regiment held the defense for four days, under the command of Captain L.V. Smirnykh, who died heroically.

On August 18, 1945, near the territory of the village, Japanese officers, infuriated by military setbacks, accused the ethnic Koreans living here of spying for the USSR and shot the Koreans without trial. The tragedy became known as the shooting in Kamisikuk ^{[4] [5]} . Before the entrance of the Soviet troops, the village was blown up and set on fire by the retreating Japanese.

After the war ended in 1947, the village was renamed Leonidovo, in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union Leonid Vladimirovich Smirnykh who died and was buried here ^[6] (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR No. 17 of 10/15/1947).

In the Soviet years, the village was transformed into a large military garrison. Parts of the 79th motorized rifle division were stationed here: the 396th motorized rifle regiment of military unit 47147, the 98th separate tank battalion of military unit 93107, and the 140th anti-aircraft missile regiment of military unit 35762.

Since 1945, the 6th long-range bomber regiment of military unit 45171 (renamed the 345th DBAP in 1946) was placed on the Tu-2S. The regiment was retrained on Tu-4 and in 1951 flew to Soltsy, and the Il-28 division, which stood until 1960, was placed in Leonidovo (specify). Subsequently, the airfield was completed and expanded and was used as an operational one for the Pacific Fleet’s naval aviation, helicopter pilots, anti-submarine amphibians, missile carriers and bombers regularly flew here, the whole personnel lived in a barracks position, the so-called “Work in isolation from the base airfield”, also due to the local climate, people flew here for training flights in “difficult weather conditions”. At the airport there was a full-fledged infrastructure for various types of aircraft (including reinforced concrete shelters), powerful air defense and a stationary defense perimeter (bunkers).

In 1985-86, the 341st separate squadron (Tu-16) was temporarily located at the Leonidovo airport, in connection with the reconstruction of the Khorol airfield under the Buran spacecraft.

In 1988, the 280th separate helicopter regiment AA (military unit 17668) flew to Afghanistan’s Leonidovo airfield “under its own power,” and after less than a year the regiment was disbanded.

The last aviation unit in Leonidovo was the 94th separate helicopter regiment, which was transferred from Ussuriysk in 1994. In 2002, the regiment was disbanded.

With the reduction of military units, the population in the village halved, the village received the status of a village. In the 21st century, in the village, in the apartment buildings of the former military town, many immigrants from abandoned settlements of the Poronaysky district, as well as pensioners, live.

Name - Leonidovo (Leonidovo). ZA76 / ZA76 Index

Runway. Title: 01/19, length 1997 m, width 57 m

Threshold 1: N49 15.749 E142 55.714

Threshold 2: N49 16.826 E142 55.746

Magnetic course: 012/192

True Course: 001.3 / 181.3

Coating: Solid (concrete)

The aerodrome regulations are abandoned, the runway is built up.

The Japanese had two concrete runways 1000 meters long each at the airport, which had internal heating - there was a boiler room at the airport for this purpose. Ours could not understand the complex heating system and did not use it, and then built a new large runway.

According to the 2002 census, the population is 1363 people (651 men, 712 women) ^[15] .

In the village there is a station of the Olen-Sakhalin Sakhalin region of the Far Eastern Railway . Railway communication with Poronaysk is carried out by a local train from May to October.